it's not even being mentioned and the reason is, obama's last offer -- we actually had obama and boehner still negotiating in good faith, passing deals back and forth and this was included. he dropped his demand for having an extension of the payroll tax holiday in which the payroll tax was dropped from 6.2 to 2.4%. he dropped it. the stimulus offer shrank from 425 billion to 175 billion. so it's something he's already given up. you had tim geithner saying earlier in the year that, you know, this a payroll tax holiday is just that. it's a holiday. they're not supposed to last forever. you have unemployment is better. things are, comparatively speaking, better then they were when they first passed this so it's time to let this go. you'll have democrats worried that the payroll tax fund social security. they're worried about compromising the integrity of social security. and it's just something that folks aren't talking about. this is something, as much as i agree that there are lots of parts of the so-called fiscal cliff that are a curb, this is something that will steak effect immediatel